Analytical cumulant solution of the vector radiative transfer equation investigates backscattering of circularly polarized light from turbid media

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Cai, Wei ^a   Ni, Xiaohui ^a   Gayen, S K ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHOTONS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; MIE THEORY; SCATTERED POLARIZED PHOTONS; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 33751020564     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.056605     Document Type: Article

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